Improvement in bee-hives



L. KRAMER.

Bee Hive.

Patented May 14, 1867.

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NJErERS. PHOTLIYHoGHAFMER, WASMNGTUN. n c4 box and taking out one of the e'omb-frames z'z'whieh has :i queen cell in it and transferring it to an emptybex in :mother hive, with as many other comb-frames und bees attached as muy be required te form the nucleus of :L new swarm, which the bees will form immediately by feeding and developing a queen.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, nud desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a, double bee-hive, the-combinfitiou and arrangement of the case A with the hinged lid B, und the hinged (1,001 C, enclosing,` the shifting boxes l 2, in pairs separated by the partition a, and connected with the surplus honey-boxes; D D1 D?, substantially :1s and for the purposes herein described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 3d dey of October, 1866.

LAFAYETTE KRAMER.

Witnesses WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. Renners. 

